Beppe Scherini

Beppe Scherini was a Democratic Party of the Left deputy from 1992.

Biography
Beppe Scherini was born in Bologna, Italy, and he was a childhood friend of Leonardo Notte. The two of them were involved with the far-left student movements of the 1970s, taking part in the occupation of schools and in rallies against the government. In 1977, Scherini gave Notte a gun with which he could kill the fascists responsible for the brutal death of their friend, but Notte was caught before he could deliver justice.

Scherini continued to be active with politics, and he was a member of the Italian Communist Party and its successor, the Democratic Party of the Left. In 1992, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, and he reunited with Notte on a few occasions. The two of them joked about how they were now bourgeois, the very enemy that they had cultivated during the 1970s, but Notte's shift towards center-right politics with Forza Italia caused some strain on their friendship. In 1993, Notte recorded a conversation between the two of them that revealed that Scherini had knowledge of the PDS receiving bribes, and the recording threatened to destroy the PDS' moral superiority, thereby delivering the election to Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi. However, Notte was shot dead before he could deliver the tape to Berlusconi.